(Flint walking around, shotgun in hand)
Worker: Move that over here.
(Flint looks around)
Worker: Hey you!
(Flint gestures to himself questioningly)
Worker: Yeah, you!
(Flint bends down and buries his shotgun in the sand of a beach nearby)
(Flint walks forward)
Flint: Yeah?
Worker: Move that over there.
(Flint moves a heavy box easily to the desired spot)
(The worker turns his back and Flint sneaks over to a huge machine that people had gathered over)
Mr. Price VO: Come and witness the future!
Lionel VO: Is this a crystal ball or something?
Mr. Price VO: No, this is much grander.
(Mr. Price comes into view and talks to a lab technician)
(Flint hears the conversation)
Mr. Price: Any problems?
Lab Technician: None. If this thing malfunctions, though, we're all dead.
Mr. Price: Any chance of malfunctioning?
Lab Technician: No. We got that bug fixed. A man had to die, though.
Mr. Price: Who?
Lab Technician: Chris Mantilla. Poor fellow was one of the scientists who worked on this project. He insisted on being in the same room. The room was made with steel, which is why nobody else died. Atomic F2 100L7 energy does not affect steel and cloth. Just like this room is made of steel. The only other solid is that glass needed to reflect the energy. That area is roped off with steel supports. And the doors are closed, so the only people who will die are us.
Mr. Price: But there is no chance of that since you got this fixed.
Flint: whispering Room?
(Just then a giant steel dome surrounded everybody and the doors started to close and lock)
(Flint jammed the baton into the door closest to him before it shut completely)
(Mr. Price and the Technician walk away from Flint)
Technician: But… there is something bizarre that happened.
Mr. Price: What?
(The technician pulls an aluminum rat out of his pocket)
Mr. Price: A toy?
Technician: It used to be a living, breathing, creature. And, it still shows signs of life. It's even squeaked. But aluminum is an unbending object. If it were rubber, he'd still be walking around as a little rubber mouse. Probably could transform into his original shape.
Mr. Price: Why aluminum?
Technician: Mouse was right in front of an air vent. Somehow, the energy banded the mouse and the aluminum together. There's a lot of sand and water around here. If we were not fully protected by this steel dome, who knows…
Mr. Price: Well, that won't happen!
(Mr. Price turns to the others)
Mr. Price: Fire it up!
(A gigantic ball filled with energy starts to devour itself and implode)
(The people look on in awe)
(Suddenly Lionel sees Flint)
Lionel: You!
(Lionel pulls out his gun and fires at Flint)
(The bullet grazes the ball of energy and energy spurts out hitting various people)
Mr. Price: You fool!
(Mr. Price runs toward Lionel, but a spurt of energy hits him and blows him backwards)
(He hits the ground, dead)
(Flint runs out of there through the door and heads toward his shotgun)
(Lionel backs up and trips over the steel supports)
(He gets back up and continues to walk backwards until he hits some glass)
(Just then the ball of energy explodes)
(A blast of energy engulfs Lionel)
(Another blast of energy drives Flint into the sand)
(Then the explosions stop)
(A sand-covered hand bursts out of the sand)
(The camera zooms in as we see that the hand is sand itself)
(A large sandy monster pulls itself up from the sand)
(He looks at his hand and gasps)
(He looks at his body and then looks at himself)
Sandman: Noooo!
(Sandman hears a faint chuckle)
(He picks up the steel unaffected shotgun)
(He is surprised to see that his hands turn human when they grasp the gun)
(He walks towards the steel dome)
Lionel VO: Ha ha ha ha.
Sandman: Who is it?
Lionel VO: It's me. Lionel.
(Sandman enters the dome and sees a horrific site)
(Bodies are everywhere)
(Sandman looks up and gasps again)
(A glass human seems to stare at him)
(His lips do not move)
Glass Lionel: Ha! You, like your friend Cole, are doomed. Maybe I am doomed, too. Death by starvation, but you! You will be considered as a monster for the rest of your life.
Sandman: How did you know Cole?
Glass Lionel: I killed the halfwit. That's how I know him.
(Sandman seethes in anger)
Sandman: You!
Glass Lionel: Tried to kill you and look at me! I'd be better off in a museum. But you… Oh, you are going be an outcast. An ugly monster with no brains! You will be responsible for the deaths of these people, AND when they find you you can look forward to a life of experimental torture.
Sandman: You killed my friend!
Glass Lionel: Still on that droll subject, are we? I'd worry about you if I were you.
(Sandman raises his gun)
Glass Lionel: YOU FREAK!
(Sandman fires)
(Glass flies everywhere)
(Sandman then drops his gun and runs off)
(We cut to…)
(Peter watching the play)
Mary Jane Watson: But I have an aunt, too, who must not be longer neglected.
Peter: whispers to himself Aunt May.
(The curtain goes down and claps are heard in the audience)
(Nobody's claps are louder than John's)
(Peter tries, in vain, to out clap him as we cut to…)
(The back of the theater)
(Mary Jane exits)
John: Hey.
(Mary Jane turns around to see John Jameson)
Mary Jane Watson: John!
John: Hello, Mary Jane. You know, I seem to recall missing you at a certain event. Like our wedding. What happened?
Mary Jane Watson: Oh, that. I don't think I'm ready for marriage. I think I rushed into it.
John: Yeah, I guess you were rushed. Well, I'll see you later.
(John turns and walks away then he turns back)
John: I love you, Mary Jane.
Mary Jane: Thank you, John.
(John waits for an "I love you" but nothing comes)
(John turns and runs away)
(We zoom out to see Peter watching as we cut to…)
(Sandman walks toward the city)
(He looks and concentrates)
(The sand starts to disappear as Flint appears)
Flint: A doctor! That's what I need.
(Flint walks forward)
Flint: But I don't have any money! Money? Money!
(A grim smile comes onto Flint's face)
(Cut to…)
(A hardened sandy hand smashes through a glass window)
(We pull back to see The Sandman in all his criminal glory)
(He turns into sand and goes through the hole)
(He reforms inside)
(He walks over to the safe door, grabs it, and yanks it off)
(A silent alarm was triggered)
(Sandman turns around and sees a policeman with a gun trained at his back)
Policeman: Freeze!
(Sandman turns around slowly)
(He starts to walk forward into the light)
(The policeman stares in horror at the monster approaching him)
Policeman: F-F-Freeze!
(The Sandman walks forward still)
(The policeman fires)
(The Sandman literally splits his own sandy stomach and the bullet goes right through him)
Sandman: That was an unwise course of action.
(The Sandman is right next to the policeman now)
(Sandman's fist hardens into a brutal uppercut)
(He lets it go)
Policeman: AHHHH!
(The policeman flies upward from the impact, bursts through the second-story window, and hit the ground outside in a crumpled heap)
(Sandman smiles)
Sandman: You should always call for backup.
(Just then, two police cars pull up)
Sandman: Apparently, he did.
(Sandman bursts through the front doors)
(The officers can't even get out of their cars before they are rammed together in mid-air)
(Sandman is using the police cars like cymbals!)
(Sandman drops the police cars, runs back inside, grabs the money and runs out)
Sandman: I don't need a doctor!
(He chuckles as he screams out at the sky)
Sandman: NOTHING CAN STOP THE SANDMAN!
(He smiles as we cut to…)
